Ms Rachel says she wont work with privileged people who stay silent on Gaza
Children’s entertainer Ms.Rachel said she would not work with "privileged" people who have remained silent about civilians in Gaza, drawing criticism Tuesday from Campaign Against Antisemitism over what the group called an exclusionary "political purity test."In a recent Guardian interview, Rachel Griffin Accurso, known online as Ms.
Rachel, said she would make an exception for people who could jeopardize their ability to support themselves by speaking publicly, but not those she considers privileged."I’m going to work with people who aren’t in a privileged position, because that’s not fair to them if they could lose the ability to put food on the table.But people who are privileged who don’t say anything? Yeah, I’m not interested in working with them.
Because I feel like maybe if we all said something, the genocide would stop," Accurso said.Ms.Rachel said she would not work with "privileged" people who stayed silent about civilians in Gaza.
(Variety via Getty Images)MS RACHEL SAYS BACKLASH OVER HER GAZA POSTS 'DOESN'T FAZE' HER AS SHE CALLS OUT CELEBRITY SILENCECampaign Against Antisemitism, which has previously criticized Accurso’s Gaza activism, told Fox News Digital that her distinction failed to account for people who may hold different views on the Israel-Hamas war, including Jewish colleagues."Ms Rachel’s comments on who she is willing to work with are patently hypocritical.Acting as an adjudicator is a privileged position in and of itself, and subjecting people to political purity tests is by definition exclusionary," the spokesperson said.
"One would have thought that someone who has admitted to having – apparently accidentally – liked a comment online saying, ‘Free America from the Jews’, Ms Rachel would be taking care to avoid these sorts of topics entirely.""Evidently the temptation to ostracize those with differing views on the war in Gaza, many of whom will be Jews, is too strong for her to resist," the spokesperson added.Ca...